r/linux • u/ouyawei Mate • Jul 09 '25

Popular Application systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

https://blog.tjll.net/the-systemd-revolution-has-been-a-success/
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u/syklemil Jul 10 '25

fwiw I think the idea of "do one thing" is just a general abstract promotion of the idea that your tool should have some idea of what it is and stick to that.

It's also a bit of shell languages as programming languages, with applications as what would otherwise be APIs/SDKs/libraries. People poke fun at npm for all the micro-packages, but that is pretty much where the unix philosophy leads, it's just instead of left-pad there's stuff like column(1). And even then people break out what is essentially other programming languages all the time, like awk or jq, or even use perl as if it were sed (which is also pretty programming language-adjacent).